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Old 03-01-2005 | 09:07 PM
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Jacop10
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Default RE: Close Call, and the lesson learned

My close call and lession learned was to watch out doing Harriers in the wind.

I was flying my Ultra Stick 40 on the first day I had it flying and I was doing harriers. However the wind was blowing at an odd angle to the field and slowly it was drifting off. Now I was having alot of fun so I really didn't notice the plane getting smaller and smaller until it started losing contact with my transmitter. It started doing large snap rolls until it luckily worked it's way back towards the field and I regained control. Was really frightening for me, seeing it was my second plane on its first day out.

Pay attention to how far away the plane is!